Sabbath Keeping

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, 
small (and yet really not small) gifts.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~ 


“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.”
~ Thomas Goodwin ~


“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to His goodness it becomes a routine.” ~ Joel Osteen ~ 

“God says to give thanks in everything. That doesn’t mean you need to give thanks FOR everything. You don’t need to give thanks FOR that bad day. Or FOR that bad relationship. Or being passed over at work. Financial hardship. Whatever it is – you are not to give thanks FOR the difficulties, but rather IN the difficulties. That is a very important distinction, and one I think we often miss. Giving thanks IN everything shows a heart of faith that God is bigger than the difficulties and that He can use the, if you approach Him with the right heart and spirit, for your good and His glory.”
~ Tony Evans ~ 


“We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy and zeal.” ~ J. I. Packer ~ 


“There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.” ~ Hannah More ~


“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” ~ A. W. Tozer ~ 


“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~


“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted 
or take them with gratitude.”
~ G. K. Chesterton ~ 


“I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.”
~ Tim Tebow ~


“Yes, give thanks for ‘all things’ for, as it has been well said ‘Our disappointments are but His
appointments.'” ~ A. W. Pink ~ 


“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” ~ A. W. Tozer ~

Please pray for ~ Steve ~ folks struggling to recover from recent storms ~ Gladys ~ Jim ~ Rebekah ~ (thanks for praying for me…toe isn’t broken, only sprained, and healing nicely)